This act of cost-ineffective public theater by Putin is his going away present to the Western escalation managers they so desperately need to justify their failed retread of appeasement policy jobs
The cost of an IRBM/ICBM is around 10-20 times the cost of an ALCM/GLCM/SLCM
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The cost of an IRBM/ICBM is around 10-20 times the cost of an ALCM/GLCM/SLCM
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https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1859562244410888634
...for about the same payload, with the several hundred meter CEP accuracy of a daylight of February 1945 B-17 raid.
The Putin regime put out propaganda yesterday about using the RS-26 Rubezh, a SS-20 SABER lookalike, to scare Western policy makers⬇️
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The Putin regime put out propaganda yesterday about using the RS-26 Rubezh, a SS-20 SABER lookalike, to scare Western policy makers⬇️
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https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1859529131647496494
It is unlikely the Putin Regime has a significant warstock of such missiles, & every RS-26 Russia fires reduces the nuclear threat to the USA.
It is military madness...but it's great for impressing dullards in media and politics like @JakeSullivan46, German Chancellor Scholz
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It is military madness...but it's great for impressing dullards in media and politics like @JakeSullivan46, German Chancellor Scholz
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...and Western corporate media reporters talking to the arms control community at the US State Department, which are trying to keep their now excess to US Federal government needs phony baloney jobs.🙄
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The cost of this attack to Russia is similar to a Pershing II during the 1980s, which was around $10million USD per round.
In real 2024 dollar terms an RS-26 would cost about the same, which accounting for inflation, is more like $20M USD now.
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In real 2024 dollar terms an RS-26 would cost about the same, which accounting for inflation, is more like $20M USD now.
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https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1859538071554818541
All that cost to deliver six inaccurate conventional MIRV submunitions.
This is about terror & makes no military sense.
The sole purpose is to scare @JakeSullivan46 and maybe those in Trump's entourage who claim to be scared of a nuclear war.🤦♂️
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This is about terror & makes no military sense.
The sole purpose is to scare @JakeSullivan46 and maybe those in Trump's entourage who claim to be scared of a nuclear war.🤦♂️
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https://x.com/UKikaski/status/1859599932618948931
Let's be honest here...
...by any military standard you care to measure...
...this ICBM launch was a political desperation move by the Putin Regime aimed at Western political idiots.
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...by any military standard you care to measure...
...this ICBM launch was a political desperation move by the Putin Regime aimed at Western political idiots.
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